Help needed for install on 164SX

[Sergey Tikhonov]

Bojan ÿffff8aernek wrote:

>Okay, if I understand correctly, first wipe out the
>disk. I'm going to use /dev/hda as an example.
>
># dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512k count=10
>
>Then, you create the bsd partition in fdisk
>
># fdisk /dev/hda
>
>We want to create a bsd disklabel, so we say 'b'
>fdisk makes the c partition through the entire disk,
>so we say 
>d
>c
>
>where d is delete and c is the partition we want to
>delete.
>
>Okay, next would seem to be to create a partition. We
>do a
>n
>a
>2
><leave default>
>
>n is new, a is the partition, 2 is the first block and
>we could just press enter to have the default size.
>okay. we write our partition table and reboot. We're
>in disk druid now. So we convert the type of this
>partition to ext3 and set the mount point to '/'
>  
>
That is correct. Do you use swap partition or you have enough memory? :)

>Any errors with this scheme? By the way, my S3 ViRGE
>makes alphacore 1.0 install just die with garbled
>screen, so I have to do with the text one. I could get
>either a Matrox G200, or an ATi Rage 128. Which will
>work better on an alpha?
>  
>
S3 ViRGE variant seems to not working on alpha (I don't have that card, 
but others reported
problems with it. I have S3 Trio64 and it does work, but I would not 
recommend it).
Matrox G200 was reported to work. Which one is better ... can't tell.

I hope Jay would post his patches for TGA adapters for 2.6 linux and my 
ZLXp-E2 will be back in bussiness. :)

Regards,

-- 
Sergey Tikhonov
Solvo Ltd.
tsv at solvo.ru